Retail Times’ Top of the Shops online grocery sales report is bought to you in conjunction with mySupermarket. Week ending 10/10/2012 Asda More national brands win a place in Asda’s top 50 online basket this week – 12, up from

The Co-operative Food is extending its ready-to-cook Eat In range with a selection of seven new products, which it claims provide great alternatives to home-cooked dishes. At the same time, the entire Eat In range is re-launching with a fresh

Dan Cobley, managing director UK and Ireland, Google, explored how the consumer shopping experience will change in future and how to put the web to work at the 2012 IGD Convention. Cobley reminded delegates they operate in an environment where

Increasing online sales, combined with low levels of retail growth and the shift in market share from homeware specialists to retail generalists, will take their toll on store numbers and selling space with a predicted 4,000 fewer home retail stores by

Sainsbury’s has delivered strong growth of 5.6% lifting its share from 16.2% a year ago to 16.5%, according to the latest Kantar Worldpanel data for the 12 weeks ending 30 September 2012. Edward Garner, director at Kantar Worldpanel, said: “Among

Nicola McMahon, associate solicitor at law firm Charles Russell LLP, considers alternatives to retail redundancies in straightened economic times The effects of the current economic downturn have been and continue to be felt across the retail sector, with varying opinions

Marc Bolland, chief executive at Marks & Spencer, revealed how the business is transforming from being a traditional British retailer into an international, multi-channel retailer at the IGD 2012 Convention. The initial focus has been on the UK, however, and

FMCG will be a fundamental building block of Amazon’s future customer proposition, according to its VP Ajay Kavan. Speaking at the 2012 IGD Convention Kavan said Amazon aims to offer everything a customer is looking to find and buy on

Sainsbury’s chief executive, Justin King, called on the food industry to move to universal front of pack nutritional labelling combining multiple traffic lights (MTLs) and Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs) at the 2012 IGD Convention. And he challenged those delegates who

Retailers need to personalise their offer to meet individual customers’ needs, according to Tesco group chief executive Philip Clarke. Speaking at the 2012 IGD Convention, Clarke said the digital revolution has changed how people shop. “With a touch of their

Asda is equipping its store managers with iPads to encourage them to spend more time on the shop floor. It is also rolling out high speed Wi-Fi to all stores, which it claims will open up opportunities for customers, colleagues

Russian seafood company, Agama, has selected Leeds-based retail advertising agency, Gratterpalm, to create a consumer-targeted campaign. It aims to raise awareness of the Agama brand and drive sales of its premium products in what is currently a low and mid-tier dominated

Perceptions of the fragrance market as a female-only category in China are starting to change, according to new research from Mintel. It found the men’s fragrance market is beginning to make a splash, showing 20% growth from 2008 to 2011.

Spar UK says it is helping its retailers make the most of the huge sales opportunities Halloween provides with the launch of limited edition products. Limited edition Halloween-themed cupcakes, which are made with vanilla sponge, orange icing and feature ghost

Former director of strategy and futures for dunnhumby, Martin Hayward, has been appointed to the KPMG/Ipsos Retail Think Tank, following the retirement of Professor John Dawson, Emeritus Professor of the University of Stirling. Hayward is the founder of Hayward Strategy

Online UK retailer of mobile accessories, Mobile Fun has extended its warehouse and distribution centre to meet increasing sales. The 25% additional space within its UK warehouse comes as a result of Mobile Fun’s international expansion over the past 18 months and

Peckham Rye, bread baked by Brick House in East Dulwich, has been named The Londoners’ Loaf in a contest organised by the food and farming charity Sustain’s Jellied Eel magazine and Real Bread Campaign. The competition was created as a

Bar codes enabled the UK retail industry to save £10.5bn last year, according to research from supply chain standards and solutions organisation, GS1 UK, and Cranfield School of Management. The findings coincide with the 60th anniversary of the registration of the

The Co-operative is introducing new self-checkout units in stores, which feature a hopper to allow cash shoppers to feed in coins and notes at the same time to save time at the checkout. About two thirds of the retailer’s customers

Adrian Hado, head of insight and analytics at rewards programme operator, Avios, says brands should use behavioural and transactional data more effectively to deliver meaningful and relevant customer rewards and drive loyalty In a challenging economic environment and a period of fierce

This week’s online health and beauty sales (by volume) movers & shakers Bought to you by Retail Times & mySupermarket Asda Nine Asda brands feature in the retailer’s top 20 online basket, up one on last time. The supermarket’s Little

Retail Times’ Top of the Shops online grocery sales report is bought to you in conjunction with mySupermarket. Week ending 3/10/2012 Asda: Just seven national brands make it into Asda’s top 50 online basket this week, compared with nine last time.

Joseph Heler Cheese, the UK’s largest regional cheese producer, has teamed up with Geeta’s, the premium Indian chutney brand in the UK, to create a Red Leicester Blended With Authentic Indian Chutney, which it claims is set to take the